Beheading accused 'hated humans'

The man who allegedly beheaded a British woman in a supermarket on a Spanish resort island was obsessed with the film Predator and had alien symbols tattooed on his arm.

Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, a 28-year-old Bulgarian would tell his friends how he enjoyed the way the alien characters in the science fiction film tracked down their human prey and removed their heads, the Daily Mail reports.

Sixty-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley, originally from Hellesdon, was killed in Los Cristianos, a town on the resort island of Tenerife, on Friday in a random attack.

Mr Deyanov allegedly followed the retired grandmother through the streets of Tenerife before stabbing her 14 times and decapitating her in a supermarket.

He is then accused of running down the street holding her head in his hands before he was wrestled to the ground.

A friend told the Daily Mirror newspaper Mr Deyanov "enjoyed the way the Predators hunted and beheaded their victims" and was "always showing his tattoo off".

The accused has even made a video — filmed four years ago while he smoked marijuana — in which he talks about his dislike of humans.

According to locals, Mr Deyanov would walk around the tourist town shouting he had been "sent by God to carry out his justice on earth".

The newspaper reported that Mr Deyanov was the son of a millionaire whose life was ravaged by cocaine, heroin and cannabis.

His drug abuse also caused the breakdown of his relationship with the mother of his three-year-old daughter.

Mr Deyanov had a history of mental illness and was known in the holiday resort for his psychiatric problems, and had allegedly carried out random attacks on strangers.

Mr Deyanov was arrested three times in the months leading to the beheading, the Scottish Sun reports.

In January this year, he was arrested for allegedly attacking a security guard, who had to receive 14 stitches and left with three missing teeth after he was hit in the mouth with a rock. He was then arrested for allegedly punching a man walking a dog, and for allegedly breaking a bank window.

The security guard, 45-year-old Fermin Suarez Perez described the accused as "a timebomb waiting to go off" and said it was "unbelievable they let him out."

A warrant for the arrest of Mr Deyanov was issued just three days before the fatal attack on Mrs Mills-Westley.